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2005 National Conference

Simply the best: Women's collections in galleries, libraries, archives and museums

Program

Wednesday 28 September 2005

Workshop
Friends and Volunteer Programs: success and benefits
This workshop is hosted by the BHPML in conjunction with ASA, SA Branch

Pre-conference tours
Tour groups will visit the Royal Adelaide Hospital Heritage Office; Queen Adelaide Collection, Adelaide Town Hall; Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library, UniSA; Architecture Museum, UniSA

Tours will commence from the conference venue and delegates will have a guide to take each group to the visit location. Times will be arranged to ensure conference delegates have the opportunity to attend all venues.

Thursday 29 September 2005

Facilitator: Professor Alison Mackinnon, Director, Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies

• Welcome and Opening Address
  Hon RJL Hawke, Former Prime Minister of Australia
• Keynote Speaker
  Dr Katie Holmes, Lecturer and author, History and Women's Studies, La Trobe University
  A journey though Australian women's archive
• Shirley Jones, Jessie Street National Women's Library, Sydney
  Jessie Street National Women's Library
  • The personal papers of Jessie Street and the work of the Jessie Street archives
• Penny Ramsay, Director, Manning Clark House, Canberra
  Bronwyn Ryan, National Library of Australia
  • A Voice of Their Own: Women's Archives in the Manuscript Section of the National Library of Australia
    The National Library of Australia has been collecting the personal papers of prominent Australians since 1901. This paper will broadly examine women�s archives in the Manuscript Collection of the Library - what is collected and why. Using the papers of Dymphna Clark as a case study, the paper will then examine the processes and archival considerations involved with arranging and describing such collections. Looking at selected portions of the archive, it will delve into what can be revealed to us about who Dymphna Clark was, what she achieved and the value of her papers to the Manuscript Collection as a whole.
• Margaret Allen, Associate Professor, Gender Studies, University of Adelaide
  Australia Women's Archive Project
  • Established in 2000 as an initiative of the National Foundation of Australian Women following requests from prominent Australian women for assistance with the archiving of their personal papers and those of organisations they belonged to. The AWAP on line register provides a gateway to contextual historical information about women, organisations and their records particularly before 1945. The paper will include a presentation of the Register
• Gay Cleary, United Care Wesley, Adelaide
  The WABI Wallhanging
  • The work of WABI Women with Acquired Brain Injury is an Adelaide group that has brought women with acquired injuries into the mainstream and together have created what has become a work of art for themselves and the people of Adelaide. The WABI Wallhanging will be on display during the conference time
• Tricia Egan and Vanessa Finney
  Midwives and school girls three women's collections in transition
  • Though these three collections--two from private girls' schools in Sydney and the NSW Midwives' Association collection--are in very different organisational settings and states of order each is moving from the care of the original collectors and keepers to "outside" professional management. Managing this process whilst honouring the commitment and passion that brought the collections together can be quite a challenge and will be the focus of this paper
• Daniel Wilksch, Public Record Office, Victoria
  First Ladies
  • The Public Record Office of Victoria recently launched the First Ladies website - a resource for looking at women in PROV records. Daniel developed this website with collaborative partners the Australian Women's Archive and the National Foundation for Women

Friday 30 September 2005

• Jennifer Coombes, Curator, private Records, Australian War Memorial
  Women's stories from the Memorial's Private Records collection
  • The Australian War Memorial has many wonderful collections relating to women and this paper will highlight and draw from its resources including the records and letters of Olive King, an ambulance driver from the First World War, Sister Vivian Bullwinkel who survived the sinking of the Vyner Brooke, Second World War and Flight Lieutenant Margaret Larkin, First Gulf War
• Pauline Cockrill, Museum Curator and former Curator of the National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame, Alice Springs
  World wide women: where in the world would you put a Women's museum?
  • This presentation is an overview of women's museums in the world-in Europe, North America, Asia and Africa-and looks at the women who founded them, their development and collections and focuses on the buildings in which they are housed. A power point presentation will provide a pictorial look at many of the worlds women's museums
• Dr Katie Holmes, Lecturer and author, History and Women's Studies, La Trobe University
  Women and Gardens
• Rosemary Crowley, Former Senator for South Australia
  Alive and Archived
  • Not many of us have the chance to be archived during our lifetime or have the opportunity to assist the archivist with the process. Rosemary has been fortunate to have experienced both and will take us through the stages of 'being archived' as her personal papers became part of the Hawke Prime Ministerial Library collection
• Tracy Crisp, Writer and Arts Administrator
  Is that family history or a PhD? Mothers, children and independent research
  • Who cleaned the toilets before the sewerage drains were laid in the City of Adelaide? Who were the wet nurses and foster mothers of the 1890s? Would a nurse ride her bike to work in the 1960s and where would she leave the bike? Tracy Crisp's writing is strongly influenced by the experiences of women and their children and she has been looking for women in Adelaide's libraries and archives, allowing their lives to expand her own. She will demonstrate the life that facts can give to fiction, explore the place of the independent researcher in today's information environment, and describe the challenges facing researchers who need to bring their children along for the ride.
• Julie Tolley, Researcher
  Stewed cockatoo and a glass of grenache
  • A historical investigation of women in the South Australian wine industry 1836-2003
• Dr Julie Collins, Archivist, Architecture Museum, University of South Australia
  Women in Architecture
  • The Architecture Museum is part of the Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design, and has holdings of historical architectural drawings, specifications, letters, books and items related to South Australia's architectural history. Marjorie Simpson is represented in the archives with an extensive and historically significant collection and will be the feature of this presentation
• Marissa Young, PhD candidate, University of South Australia
  Petticoat and Printing Presses: tracing female entrepreneurs and employees in Australia's colonial newspapers and almanacs
  • Little is known about the early press coverage of working women in Australia and this presentation will highlight the importance of library and archival collections of newspapers and almanacs as primary sources for research. Colonial newspapers can provide insights into the ways in which Australian women found avenues to develop their personal lives and earn an income and this paper will explore avenues of access and co-operative research strategies to improve the prospects of success for future researchers
• Prime Ministerial Wive - Who are they and what did they do?
  Representatives from each of the Prime Ministerial Libraries will provide an overview of their 'first lady' and the role their prime ministers wife maintained during her time in public office
  • Whitlam Institute
  • Kandy-Jane Henderson, John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library
  • Deakin Prime Ministerial Library
  • Margaret Goedhart, Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library
  • Sharon Losik, Old Parliament House
• Summary and Conference Closure
  Elizabeth Ho
  Director, Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre
  Helen Livingston
  Director, Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library and Director, Library Services, University Librarian

For further information contact the Conference Convenor
Jenni Jeremy
Academic Librarian
University of South Australia Library, Magill Campus
St Bernards Road
Magill, South Australia  5072
Ph +61 8 8302 4457